(August 27, 2018 at 3:22 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 27, 2018 at 2:03 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: So, people in hell are actively choosing eternal agony and suffering over god? That doesn’t make any sense.
It's not all about whoring and murder. There are perverse pleasures in sin. That is why people spread malicious gossip, express self-righteous anger, show contempt for their 'inferiors', revel in feelings of self-importance, obsess over their appearances, or have to be the center of attention. Imagine a party filled with those kinds of people where everyone trying make the most clever comment, the most cutting insult, or making showy outrage over perceived slights. Hell is a big party for people who are all about me, me, me, me me. It draws them in like flypaper, stuck on up-staging everyone else.
And what is Heaven other than a community of people who see that it's not all about themselves, their family, their tribe, or nation; but rather, that there is something bigger and more important than all that. They are living together in Truth and loving the highest Good.
And yet, according to your religion, practicing Buddhists who have overcome the 'me, me, me, me' syndrome (not to mention whoring and murder) will share the same fate as those who haven't. Are they in love with some venal sins you haven't mentioned? Or is it just that they, too, don't buy the Christian-approved diagnosis/prescription for what ails us?
Dress it up as you will, but the bottom line here is disbelief in your story. In other words, thought crimes.
